SPONTANEOUS GENERATION Professor Tyhdall, according to the London Atiierwum % in a recent lefiture showed, by brilliant experiments, thatspontaneousgeneration is an absolute impossibility; and llitat if solu I lions open to the air^oon swarm with life, it is because they have been impregnated by living particles floating in the air. It has long been knownthat air which has been thoroughly freed from floating particles by fire, the action of acids, or otherwise, will not produce life; and further proof was given by Dr. Tyndall'a researches in 1868 and 1869, with the additional facts, that filtering through cotton-wool dears the air aa effectually as fire, and that air thus purified will not transmit light. A glass chamber Sited with the purified air remains dark, even when placed in the track of a cqn-j trasted beam of light. There is npthlng to rei fleet or, scatter.the light, and it may nov be accepted as an axiom that air which' has lost its power of scattering light tils al...

REMEDY FOR WOUNDS Every person should know how to treat a ifiesh wound. -Every one is liable to be placed in circumstances away from surgical and'veterinary aid,-where he may save his oWn life, or that of a friend, simply l&gt;y the exercise Of a little common sense. In • the firs* place close the lips of the Wound with the hands and hold them firmly together to check the flow of blood suntil several stitches can be taken, and a band age; applied. Then, bathe the wound for a long time in cold water. '. Should it be painful, take a panful of burning coals and sprin'cle upon them; common brown sugar, and hold the wounded part in the smoke. In a minute or two the pain will,be allayed, and the recovery proceeds rapidly. In my casera rusty nail had made a bad wound in my foot The pain and nervous irritation were severe. This was all removed by holding it in smoae fifteen minutes and I was able to resume my reading in comr fort. I have often recommended it to others with like ...

5THE NEW GENERATIONJ. ; ' The NeWbth-yport MerttldA&amp;fS' fiiH three: quartersiof;alUtl»e «hildreri borni inlffassachur sews areJttf immediate foreign extractioni There issometbirigfstartling in?a fact like tplff,^as it involTes not only^the alleged crime off destroying fchildren aiid the fear of bringingtiieriianto the wofid,'4)at shows gr$at change *etween;th.e pr^senii and the past: • In' the pasfthej mbthert . of New-England gave1 birth to Uhek ten or twelve children, and' thought it no^reat! hard: ship to-rear and educate them: ;Iri the present the average number of children in each family, with American parents.sis but twoor.tjbree. A few^days since we- cupiediiheobs.ervati6ns of jjlihu Burritt^upon/the .'groat: change going on in;all jSewvEngland.^eryro&amp;rty ojf-ithe old faimlHe8aTe;:becomiiigv*extinct,^and ipore are muvidg trpm the} stito/i .T*he&lt; old-time farms have tlost both their ownership and proportions; The star of empire is not only westward...

THE JR1GHTEOU8 ARE NEVER FORSA . KEN." ¦'; . : —»,— .).'¦ . •: BY JE3TSIE M. STEBBINS. »«-— . ; i ..It was one of those days, in December.iwhich causes the child of poverty to draw more closely his tattered garments and the rich man toward his marble hearth.' In a lone1 alley in a low house and uninviting room, sat the widow Middle'ton,and Lilian, her only child, a girl of thirteen summers. Nothwithstanc'ing the gnawihgsol hunger had made pallid her cheeks, her beauty was unsurpassed. There was something in the appearance of these two persons which evinced that they Jiad seen better days. "Lily my daughter," said Mrs, M.,, and in a raoment the daughter stood by the side of her sick mother's chair. 4,8it down my child, 1 hafea quesr tion to ask." Lily sat down and lpoked into the sad. yet beautiful face of her mother.— "Lily, do you think that you i could l&gt;eg Ti—"Anything for you dear mother," and shesucceeded in hiding the unbidden tears, pr well she knew that her mo...

UNDERGROUND TELEGRAPH. At a recent meeting of the Society of Telegraph Engineers, Mr. Charles Fleetwood, of the Postal Telegraph Department, read a paper of * 'Undergaound Telegraphs; the London Street Work." The author said that th!e system was begun in 1837, with a line offiye wires, con^ fined in lead pipes, between Paddington and Drayton. This line became defective, and was replaced in 1841 by posts and overhead wires In 1846, on.the incorporation of the Electric TelegmphuDphip. ahy.'a new line was laid ; and in 1848 the :tpttil system of the company comprised fifteeja ; hundred miles of telegraph wires. All the cables are. jseht out from the postal stores in/lengths of! four hundred 3;ards. These are^ divided into I two, and are passed over and under wooden rollers fixed in the flush boxes, the second roller being so arranged that the'cable enters tie pipe with a clear lead, and without being chafed against its edges! Mr. Fleetwood said also that, within the last five y...

MURDERS IN NEW YORK; , In 1870, the year of ;the Nathan murder.there were 41 homicides in New. Tork ..... Of these, 3 were hanged, 2 sentenced to imprisonment, 16 acquitted, 6 escaped, 4 were unknown, 2 committed suicide, and 1 was sent to a lunatic asylum. -The two men hanged were {Jack Reynold, who "became. famous from hisj^past that "hanging was playedjput in New York," and John Thomas, a negro., In 1871; ^3. persons were murdered. Ol. the murderera. William Foster, who killed Avery D. PuUnan in a street car in May, was hanged, ^ Not one of the others was sentenced for life, and only 10 were co.n- demnfd to imprisonment In 1872jthere were more murders than .in any other since; the beginning of the present decade: Not one of the fifty-five murderers of that year waa executed. In 1878, fifty-three persons were killed and one of the murderers was- hanged. This was Michael Nixaon, the bill-poster^vAo shot Charles H. Pfeifer, of wiSteslifirg^Tliei number djscharged or acquitte...

towir, coxmrr, Aiu&gt; vaeiety , w—iKr. Leonard Stark baa the frame tip JSfjB. V. Curry'a Cif*r Uanulactory; i»—Tu« statement of tht Supervisors ot Sil-*(ft Lake township baa' been recenred, and will Ho published meat weak. j .. *+—&lt;jat y«ur-smohtd flats ready, as theri is Utean eclipse of the sun on the 26th of Hareh, at three o'clock In the afternoon. **-~The yorwt Millo Manufacturing Comgaay «f Salem township,'Wayne county, have aoade an aa»ifl»aj«at for the benefit of their ,«*rditor*. j -^—Montroee Fire Company i Nb. 2,will hold tkeir Sixth Annual Reception at Firemen's itall, on Friday «rening,Feb. 25,1876. A gen,-trrj inritation ia extended. ] —Judge Streeter has returned from Tawjmda-and held an argument court this week. Tlifflse argwnent courts are hard on the tipatavee. The benches get very; tired. ¦ The young ladies of St. Raul's church ^tlll hold a sociable "at tlie residence of Ohas. \K..Smith on Thursday evening, Feb. 24th. Reftohmenta will be served d...

Business Locals. HANbaaLS for Auction Sales, etc., printed at the Dbmochat office in jfirst-class style and al^reasbnable pricea. ...;'"• ^tS^XHR. Sixth Annual RkcbJtion of Montrofee FtreCo;,Ko; 2, will be held at Fire men a Hall, Friday evening, Feb. 25tb. All are cordially invited to attend. • v * _r I .. : By order of Com. Montrose, Feb. 23,1876wl. \ Do»Ation.-A DonationA will be held at the notwa/df Henry N. Crisrrian, in West Dimock, on Tbesday eyening, FeK. 29, tor the benefit of ¦ W?a,IL G. Harn d nnd Abel Wrigley, An oyster nupper will be provided to which all are in*it«l By order of Coic. Ditt&lt;*k, *eb. 23,'.l879wl; •-.¦;¦x CLAWiOVAKT lIXAMrjCATIONS FftBB. Ther! is, bo aohject that requires so much s»ud^ nbd experience as the treatment of. cb ronic. diseiises. Tbe astonishing success and remarhalli cures perlorraed by Dr. Butterfield, arc due «to thecift of clairvoyance, to the lifelong tt^dybf the constitution of man, aud the earing of diotocestrora natural rem...

Centaur Liniment. There is no pain which the Centanr: Liniment will not relieve, no * welling they: will not snbdne, and-no lamCne** . ' which they wlllnotcure.Thl*l«8trong j langoaue, bat ;lt Is true. They have. ' . ¦ :u produced mOre caies of rhenmatleaa, .. I neura]gla,lock-jaw.pal*y,8prainB,swel' ' I lings, caked breast*, scald*, burn* J salt rhenrn. ar-»!«he, Ac;, upon the hnrnan frame, and o strains',;spajrn, galls, etc., upon animal* in one year than have all &gt;ther pretended remedies since the world began. They are cohnter-irrltant, all-healing, pain reliever*. Cnpilea throw away their crutches, the lame walk,pol8on!(u»bit«B arc rendered barmle**, and the wonnded are sealed without* scar. The recipe ie.pn.b-Hahed around each bottle. They sell a* no article* ever sold before, p ocause' they do jnet what they pretend to do. Thof«wtionow *nu*er from rhenmatism.pain.or swellinc- dei( rvo to suffer if they will not use Centaur Liniment, wl ite wrapper. More than 100...